John Cave were nominated a Committee to solicit members. Red Cross Tag Day netted four hundred and ninety-four dollars and some cents, which with previous collections amounted to seven hundred and twenty-five dollars. The executives and committee met at the home of Mrs. H. C. Heming to plan their additional work on June 30. There were by that time a hundred and fifty active mem-

HISTORY OF WESTERN NEBRASKA

bers in the organization, but they set the goal at a thousand members.

At the election held in August, 1917, John Wertz was elected Chairman, with Mrs. Ed C. Wolf, Vice Chairman; Mrs. H. C. Peterson, Treasurer; Mrs. L. O. Pfeiffer, Secretary, and Mrs. R. B. Williams, Assistant Secretary. Among the future activities planned, was a Christmas dinner for the boys in service in

1917, and on April 12, 1918, nine hundred and twenty-one dollars was realized from a Red Cross auction. The drive of May, 1918, went five hundred dollars over the allotment for Deuel county, as the quota was twenty-five hundred dollars and the Red Cross drive netted three thousand dollars.

A Junior Red Cross was organized in June,

1918, with Mrs. Dr. Lynch as its head executive. The Y. M. C. A. also became active and the drive of November, 1917, went fifty per cent over the quota for Deuel county, which was alloted fifteen hundred dollars and subscribed two thousand, two hundred and ninety seven dollars.

Among the "four minute men," speakers for the Liberty Bond drives and other war movements were Mr. and Mrs. H. R. Busse, Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Betts, Mrs. Retta Brown, and other prominent people who took an active part in the prosecution of the work for the government during the war. An organization was also effected in Deuel county for the enrollment of student nurses.